Another Apelles was the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century; Apelles (theologian)[?].
Apelles was a renowned
painter of ancient
Greece. Of
Ionian origin, he became a student at
Sicyon under
Pamphilus[?]. At the court of
Macedon he painted
Phillip II and the young
Alexander the Great with such success that he became the recognised court painter. His painting of Alexander holding a
thunderbolt was highly regarded. He painted various portraits and mythological figures, none of which have survived to the present day.